SOOP - Shaping an Ocean of Possibilities
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SOOP – Shaping an Ocean Of Possibilities for science-industry collaboration aims to support the development of new instruments, specifically modular sensors.
These sensors can be deployed on non-scientific vessels, such as private sailboats, to collect oceanographic and climate-relevant data.
The collected data will be made available on a jointly operated digital platform.
This data can be used to create models of the ocean that simulate, for example, temperature, salinity, currents and other parameters.
In this way, the scientists can provide indications of the state of the oceans and devise effective early warning systems.
In SOOP, the organizations GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, are working together with partners from industry, civil society and science.
SOOP is funded in the Helmholtz funding line “Innovation platforms as sustainable and structure-building measures to strengthen transfer and innovation” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research from 2023 to 2025.
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